"So, you're a ghost?" That's what a spirit is, right? Though, he's never run into a ghost named Compassion. Okay, he's never run into a ghost at all but Cole doesn't need to know that. Ghosts don't tend to run around Pandora because even they're terrified of that place. Any smart spirit would be.

"You're a ghost in someone else's body," he surmises, looking Cole up and down before he nods. "Well, that's certainly one way to stay alive. I think I'd do the same thing."

And he's got someone (something?) currently living in his head that had taken extreme measure to make sure he wasn't completely out of the game either.

"You been in there long?"